#Politics

"I had eggs for breakfast. I ate them off the hood of a politician’s car, after I threw them there."

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"

"When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people."

"But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over."

"We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality."

"I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated."

"I believe in true love. But my opinion is tainted, because I also believe in Bigfoot, aliens, and in the existence of honest politicians."

"Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat."

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

"When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some."

"Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that."

"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."

"Mixing humor and politics is something that works."

"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

"The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories."

"I have two ears, so why can’t I listen to two things at once? A politician only has one mouth, yet doublespeaks all the time."

"A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them."

"My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969."

"La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas."